Building studies
Architecture in Detail
Launched in 1991, the Architecture in Detail series comprises more than 60 titles. The series covers a broad spectrum, with buildings selected for their exceptional character, innovative design or technical virtuosity. Each volume contains an essay by a respected critic, a sequence of large-format colour and black-and-white photographs, together with a full set of technical drawings and working details.
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Crystal Palace
London 1851, Sir Joseph Paxton -
Eames House
Los Angeles 1949, Charles and Ray Eames -
Fallingwater
Bear Run, Pennsylvania 1935, Frank Lloyd Wright -
Leicester University Engineering Building
Leicester 1959-63, James Stirling and James Gowan -
National and University Library, Ljubljana
Ljubljana 1936–9, Jože Plečnik -
Unité d’Habitation
Marseilles 1945-52, Le Corbusier
Foster Document Series
Picking up where Architecture in Detail left off, this series aims to document all of Foster + Partners’ most significant buildings in monograph form. Each small-format book contains sketches, drawings, models, photographs and technical data, allowing every aspect of the project to be explored – from the first design sketches, through design development, to patterns of use in the finished building.